Author: News

Our work on using the SALUS mobile app to make our neighborhoods safer has been featured in university and local news. References: Study homepage. News on the D-MTEC website. Cristina’s interview with SRF.

Our paper titled “Prevention or Panic: Design and Evaluation of a Crime Prevention IS” was accepted as a full paper at the 2015 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2015) in Fort Worth, US. See more details about ICIS 2015.

Our team won the best short paper and poster award for “Towards Simulating Criminal Offender Movement Based on Insights from Human Dynamics and Location-Based Social Networks” at the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics – SocInfo’18 in Oxford.

Great opportunity to get feedback on the PhD plan of Raquel Rosés at the Doctoral Symposium at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence – EPIA’17: An Agent-Based Approach towards Crime Prediction: Evaluating the Potential of Environmental Factors and Human Dynamics to Model Offender Behavior

Our paper “Towards Simulating Criminal Offender Movement Based on Insights from Human Dynamics and Location-Based Social Networks” has been accepted as a short paper at the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics – SocInfo’18 and will be presentid in Oxford next September!

We are exited to present our latest work at Summer Simulation Multi-Conference, in Montreal! Find our work in progress on Design of an Agent-Based Model to Predict Crime (WIP)  in the conference proceedings.  

Our paper entitled “Towards a Burglary Risk Profiler Using Demographic and Spatial Factors” was accepted for publication at the 2015 Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2015) to be held in the period of November 1-3 in Miami, Florida, USA. We are looking forward to knowledge exchange with other researches working on similar topics. See more…
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Our paper entitled “Towards a Crowdsourcing Approach for Crime Prevention” was accepted for publication at the Workshop on Mobile and Situated Crowdsourcing (WMSC ’15) co-located at the 2015 International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp ’15) to be held in the period of September 7-11 in Osaka, Japan. We are looking forward to…
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By now, digital services have penetrated all aspects of life: In private as well as in business environments people interact on digital channels with increasing frequency. In collaboration with qipp – a software start-up company – the Mobiliar Lab for Analytics examined which digital services are especially relevant to tenants of rental apartments or buildings. The…
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Our paper entitled “CityWatch: The Personalized Crime Prevention Assistant” was accepted for publication at the 13th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia to be held in the period of November 25-28 in Melbourne, Australia. We are looking forward to meeting many interesting researches from all over the world and exchanging ideas with them. See…
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